Corrections officers may be "peace officers" but they aren't "certified law enforcement officers," a judge ruled Friday.

Criminal justice reform advocates say legislation to seal criminal records for certain nonviolent crimes, which passed Friday ...

In order to overhaul the U.S. immigration system, it is vital for the country to nix the idea of criminality altogether.

Justices allowed the Trump administration to strip temporary protections from hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Genocide is about attempting to destroy a group of people. The concept was first defined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, in response to his horror at the mass killing of ethnic ...

Colorado's second-highest court last week upheld the recently reworded definition of "reasonable doubt" that appears in the ...

The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas ...

We are standing on the verge of a new era where committing a crime without being identified and caught is increasingly ...

A future Crimes Against Humanity Convention holds tremendous potential to strengthen protection for people at risk of ...

One precinct saw a drop in crime rates, two saw a rise, and one remained static. A 1931 report by the National Commission of Law and Enforcement acknowledged this: “The theory that immigration is ...

North Texas’s four largest counties refer more children to the state’s juvenile justice system for running away than any other part of the state.

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